More than 40 community leaders have volunteered to be the voice of their careers at Vance County Schools.
At the school board’s community and business relations committee meeting Tuesday, Public Information Officer Terri Hedrick presented the feedback she received from solicitation of school volunteers for the Vance County Schools Speaker’s Bureau.
The program was designed to expose Vance County students to people making a difference in the community and succeeding in their careers.
“Our kids have got to see a real-life, human, breathing type of person in order to say ‘Hey, you have impacted what I am doing,’ ” Superintendent Ronald Gregory said. “A role model is not someone you see on television; it someone you can reach out and touch and interact with.”
The committee will look at different job areas to add to the list, including health sciences, recreation and entertainment.
“There are others that we can reach out to, and we definitely will,” Hedrick said.
